Kentaro YOKOUCHI
Human behavior – SMB, 2020-2024
DH E wv firefly, 2024
adapting form -sl, 2012
Biography
Born in 1979 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
2002: B.F.A. in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University
2004: M.F.A., Kyoto City University of Arts
2007: Ph.D. in Oil Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts
2008: Won the VOCA Prize
2014: Stayed in Indonesia as an Overseas Study Fellow of the Pola Art Foundation
Worked in Inabe, Mie Prefecture until 2014.
Studied in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 2014; Auditing student at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI).
2014–2020: Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2020–2021: Stayed in the Netherlands as an Overseas Trainee under the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.
Currently working between Indonesia and Japan, and based in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005: INAX GALLERY 2, Tokyo
2007: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya
2008: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2009: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2010: Kenji Taki Gallery | G-tokyo 2010, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo
2011: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2012: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2014: Between the Lines, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2016: Pola Art Foundation Overseas Study Fellows Exhibition: Kentaro Yokouchi, Art Fair Tokyo 2016 (Tokyo International Forum), Tokyo
2018: Fallen Blue Leaves, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2020: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Collection Gallery Mini-Exhibition: Kentaro Yokouchi CONTACT, Nagoya
2020: Something for Everyone, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2020: Indigo Phase, puntWG, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024: Dub, horizontal, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2025: Fabric of Perception, Kenji Taki Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006: March part 2, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2007: Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum), Okazaki, Aichi
2007: Paradise of Illusion, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2007: NEWS, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2008: The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2008, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2008: The 4th Fuchu Biennale: True Colors, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2009: Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD, Former Seibu Railway Tokorozawa Train Factory, Tokorozawa, Saitama
2009: NINE, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2010: MOT Annual 2010: Neo-Ornamentalism, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo
2010: FLAT LAND – The Power of Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2011: Togen Banzai! – Genealogy of East Asian Utopias, Mindscape Museum, Okazaki, Aichi
2012: Seals of Eastern light – Hidehiko Tajima x Kentaro Yokouchi (Two-person Exhibition), Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2012: New Contemporaries, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2012: Message from Curators 2012: The Present of Contemporary Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
2013: re:framing – Space of Expression, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2015: Daiwa Collection VII: Day Dream – Spun Memories, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha
2015: Sulih Suara, Gallery Katamsi ISI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016: Berseri-se, Banyu Bening Gallery, Magelang, Indonesia
2019: Collective Storytelling – Contemporary Art from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Synesthesia, New York, USA
2019: Collective Storytelling, Setouchi Triennale, Former Ibuki Kindergarten, Ibukijima, Kanonji, Kagawa
2019: Lintas House / ASP from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Basara House, Beppu, Oita
2019: Small Infinity, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2020: Reflections C19, Stichting World Art Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Public Collections
Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum)
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Takamatsu Art Museum
作品
Signs (san), 2009
Signs (nie), 2010
Signs (oki), 2009
Signs(sye), 2010
Signs(goi), 2010
Book – AO FKAP, 2010